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Informationen zum Autor By Richard C. Jones - Contributions by Christopher A. Airriess; Michael Broadway; Karl Byrand; Mohammad Chaichian; Pawan Dhingra; Susan Hardwick; Nancy A. Hiemstra; Ellen Percy Kraly; Heather A. Smith; Emily Skop and Donald Stull Klappentext The booming 1990s saw a new demographic pattern emerging in the United States-the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and metropolitan areas in ethnically homogenous (or traditionally bicultural) areas. These places offer growing, specialized economies in need of unskilled or semi-skilled (and occasionally skilled) labor; they also offer, for some immigrants, a favorable physical and social climate. Immigrants Outside Megalopolis documents this trend with case studies including Hmong in Wisconsin, Iranians in Iowa, Mexicans in Kansas and Colorado, Vietnamese in coastal Louisiana, Mexicans in North Carolina and south Texas, Cubans in Arizona, Bosnians in upstate New York, Asian Indians in north Texas, and Ukranians and Russians in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Truly, this process is resulting in a cultural transformation of the U.S. heartland. The implantation of new features on the cultural landscape (businesses, homes, churches, schools, possessions, and the peoples themselves) is giving many Americans a world geography lesson-at a time when increased world understanding is something the country cannot do without. This geography lesson comes at a cost, however: the difficult process of social adjustment, playing out on a daily basis between immigrant and host populations, which remains largely unresolved. This process is an important focus of Jones's book. Zusammenfassung Documents the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and metropolitan areas in the United States. This book presents eleven case studies of immigrant groups in the differing parts of the country. It highlights both the new cultural landscapes and the tales of accommodation and acceptance! of rejection and discrimination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Preface Part 2 Part One: Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Immigrants Transform and are Transformed by the U.S. Heartland Part 4 Part Two: Western United States Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Slavic Dreams: Post Soviet Refugee Identity and Adaptation in Portland, Oregon Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Emigrés Outside Miami: The Cuban Experience in Metropolitan Phoenix Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Trying to Be Authentic, But Not Too Authentic: Second Generation Hindu Americans in Dallas, Texas Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Spatial Disjunctures and Division in the New West: Latino Immigration to Leadville, Colorado Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Meatpacking and Mexicans on the High Plains: From Minority to Majority in Garden City, Kansas Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Cultural Retrenchment and Economic Marginality: Mexican Immigrants in San Antonio Part 11 Part Three: Eastern United States Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Spaces and Places of Adaptation in an Ethnic Vietnamese Cluster in New Orleans, Louisiana Chapter 13 Chapter 9: The Quest for Home: Sheboygan's Hmong Population Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Getting Settled in the Heartland: Community Formation Among First- and Second-Generation Iranians in Iowa City, Iowa Chapter 15 Chapter 11: The Untraditional Geography of Hispanic Settlement in a New South City: Charlotte, North Carolina Chapter 16 Chapter 12: "An Anchor of Hope": Refugees in Utica, New York Part 17 Part Four: Epilogue Chapter 18 Chapter 13: The Contributions of Immigrants: From Megalopolis to Mainstream...
